Andrew Cooper
Jul 30, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale yellow, a 7th magnitude 1.6" companion not visible, in the field with 43Cet

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 3, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A close double star, in the space between the Whale's back, and the kheït, or band of Pisces, about 10° north of η Ceti, on the line towards α Trianguli. A 6, bright white; B 8, white. A beautiful object, but very difficult to measure in distance: it is No. 113 of Σ., who terms the components vicinæ; and as his last measures were

    Pos. 334°30  Dist. 1".177  Ep. 1836.91
             [ 22°          1".60       2019 WDS]

it seems to have a direct angular movement, to the amount of about 0°.700 per annum: but this requires verification. A proper motion in space is moreover attributed to the star A, to the following values:

    P.... RA +0".06  Dec. +0".05
    B....    +0".06       -0".02
   [Gaia DR2 +0".008429   -0".011768]

― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844

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